As many people will attest, a chunk of crusty white smeared with a dollop of homemade ragu is an undeniable joy, so how does this effort measure up?
But it can be frustrating to have a sprawling white smear blotting out the scenic vista you were hoping to capture.
Soon, a white smear of rind developed.
Corneal scrapings were subjected to Grams, Giemsa and Calcofluor white stain for direct smear examination and culture on blood agar, chocolate agar, brain heart infusion broth, thioglycollate broth, Sabouraud's dextrose agar and non-nutrient agar with Escherichia coli overlay.
With dust underfoot and in your lungs, it's like being in an ancient burial chamber, and yet those urgent white plaster smears are very much in the present tense.
A distorted, at first baffling, black and white form smears itself in a disruptive oval across the painting; viewed from the right-hand side, it reveals itself as a human skull.
He found her on the white carpet, smeared with blood, a gaping hole in her chest.
He is waiting for me in his big basement studio, surrounded by paintings, and wearing a doctor's white coat smeared with the detritus of his work.
As she walks through the bar (toward the bathroom), B looks carefully at her shoes: they are white and smeared with mud on the sides.
The obligatory dance performance, in which two women wrapped in white paper smeared paint on themselves while the men behind them struck movie-star poses, was less forgivable, but it was at least brief.
